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Auguste François Laby, 1784–1860, Freetown, Sierra Leone, ca. 1850
- Title:
Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Date:
- ca. 1850
- Medium:
- Colored lithograph on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/4 × 29 9/16 inches (33.7 × 75.1 cm), Image: 10 1/2 × 25 1/4 inches (26.7 × 64.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, veros, lower right: "R8111/5""
Letered, ower left: "DRAWIN ON STONE BY LABY & J NEEDHAM AFTER SKETCHES BY M TERRY | Govenment House Maroon Chapel Soldiers' Hospital"; lettered, lower right: "PRINTED AT M LEAN & CO. LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT [...] | Weslyan Mission House | Barracks"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13200
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:50320
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